I make this Instant Pot potato salad recipe with smashed Yukon Gold potatoes all the time. I always volunteer to make this for family parties when it’s pot luck because it is so easy to make and everyone loves it. I love the texture of this Instant Pot potato salad because the potatoes come out the perfect texture in no time at all. Then I roughly smash yukon gold potatoes and dress them with a homemade mayo. sauce. You won’t be able to stop eating it!

My family had a Labor Day BBQ planned for yesterday and it was a bring your own meat and a side sort of thing. I hate bring your own meat things. It’s hard with kids. They always want what someone else brings. It’s easy to just bring hot dogs or pick up take out. But I told my husband I was really in the mood for something good and I was willing to put forth a little more effort to get it.

We ended up making smoked pork shoulder roast, this instant pot potato salad, coleslaw and Boston baked beans. And it all turned out so, so good. Sure, we were cooking for several hours. But it was the kind of cooking we enjoyed. We spent time talking about each recipe and figuring out exactly what would be the best and just enjoyed our day off together. I basically turned in to a perfect day where we focused on the things that really matter in life, like family and good food.

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The pork roast turned out really good, but we ate it before we had a chance to take a photo of it. We didn’t have enough time to smoke it all day, so we smoked it for 4 hours and then finished it off in the Instant Pot for about 45 minutes while we were driving to the picnic. Yes. You heard that right. We have an adaptor we plug in to our car and we can plug in one regular plug. So we’ve used it for our Instant Pot or crock pot several times. It comes in really handy when our food isn’t quite ready, but we need to leave to a family party so we’ll be on time. By the time we get there, the food is all done. Or, it’s a good way to keep things warm if they are already cooked.

We also have a plug in cooler that we used to keep this potato salad nice and cool so no one got sick from bad potato salad.

I’ve made instant pot potato salad a lot. Seems like I volunteer to make it a lot. Why? Well, because I like mine the best and it’s not very hard to make, especially in the Instant Pot. One of the best parts is the homemade mayo. It’s so easy, cheap and good. You’ll never buy store bought again.

Here are some tips and tricks for this Instant Pot potato salad:

It’s important to cut the potatoes in to cubes and not put them whole in the Instant Pot so they will cook as evenly as possible.

Also do your best to get the chunks and uniform as possible so they cook evenly.

Feel free to add or take away ingredients to suit your taste. It’s really good with lots of pickles and a little extra pickle juice.

Please let me know if you try this potato salad and what you think. Do you mash the potatoes or leave them as chunks? Have you ever tried potato with yukon gold potatoes before? Now that I’ve tried it, I’ll never use russets again.

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I love the texture of this Instant Pot potato salad because the potatoes come out the perfect texture in no time at all. Then roughly smash yukon gold potatoes and dress them with a homemade mayo. sauce. You won't be able to stop eating it!